We refuse to live smaller so billionaires can live larger.
06.03.2026 14:50
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We refuse to live smaller so billionaires can live larger.
BIG win at Duke today!
Starting wages are going up to $20/hour across the University and Health System.
That’s organizing. That’s showing up. 🎉
Disabled workers’ unemployment is more than double that of nondisabled workers. For people of color, it’s even higher.
We watched this administration roll back disability hiring, undermine civil rights enforcement and slash job protections.
These are the consequences.
DeSantis started his crusade against unions in 2023.
It failed. In all 209 cases FL teachers voted to keep their union.
His response? Move the goalposts.
A new bill to deny the will of voting members. He’s stomping on the rights of working people.
Raise wages, protect unions, and tax billionaires. Full stop.
New data shows job turnover is at a 9-year low.
Translation: workers aren’t “less ambitious”, they’re being careful because rent is up, layoffs are real, and the next job might not exist.
This is why we need strong unions and job protections, especially with the rise of AI.
Let’s be clear: Trump’s attack on immigrants is an attack on ALL workers.
When some workers are intimidated into silence, it impacts us all. They want us isolated and quiet, but we’re organized and loud. ✊🏿💪🏿
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When the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act passed in 1975, Cesar Chavez walked 1000+ miles up the California coast for 59 days to inform farm workers that they had won the right to organize.
We may have more ways to communicate now, but we will not stop. #UnionsForAll
Trump has appointed 27 lifetime judges to the federal bench: 17 White men, 7 women and 0 women of color.
This isn’t about qualifications. It’s about control.
Stack the courts with loyalists, and you lock in his agenda for decades.
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Billionaires are gambling with our lives, our communities, and our planet, then calling it “business.” We’ve got to hold them accountable.
What workers across the country are asking for isn’t complicated. It’s consistent. It’s human. It’s urgent.
I keep hearing the same three things, over and over again:
Money. Power. Respect.
Unions are how we win all three.
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The SAVE Act is voter suppression.
Nearly 90% of women change their last name after marriage. Documentation mismatches means delayed registration, denied registration, or forced extra trips that working people just don’t have time for.
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Today, Roxanne Brown was sworn in as the 10th International President of the @steelworkers.bsky.social. The first woman and black person to serve in the position.
History Made.
Trump can brag about a “roaring economy” for 1 hour and 47 minutes.
Working people are still doing the math at the grocery store. Still choosing between rent and medicine.
Corporate profit isn’t dinner on the table. A union is.
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8.6 million workers are holding multiple jobs right now.
Because rent keeps going up but wages stay stagnant.
We shouldn’t have to live like this. One job should be enough.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...
Want to know why the GOP is making it so hard to vote? It’s not because of 'security' or 'logistics.'
It’s because they are terrified of you.
When a corporation is raking in billions in profits but has workers living below the poverty line.
That’s not success.
That is exploitation.
Now THIS is accountability.
NYC is flagging businesses where most workers take 0 PTO and investigating possible systemic violations.
Workers taking “0 sick days” really means they are being pressured, discouraged, or kept in the dark about their rights.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/20/z...
National parks are supposed to teach the truth.
Not the sanitized edited version.
Scrubbing slavery, Indigenous history, civil rights, Stonewall, and climate science is BLATANT censorship.
www.npr.org/2026/02/18/n...
HUGE WIN: Chattanooga Volkswagen workers just ratified their FIRST union contract with 96% voting YES.
20% raises.
Lower healthcare costs.
Stronger job security.
That’s the union difference.
Union membership went UP in 2025.
Even with Trump trying to gut collective bargaining and kneecap the NLRB.
Because workers are choosing POWER. #UnionsForAll
When they can’t win on merit, they try to win by making it harder to vote.
We. Have. Seen. This. Playbook. Before.
Never again.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...
NYC nurses proved something big: when caregivers organize, they can move mountains. Two strikes in three years and they still came out with better pay, stronger conditions & improved patient care.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...
Reality check.
60 MILLION workers would join a union tomorrow if the rules weren’t rigged against us.
Let workers organize. Let workers win.
#UnionsForAll
Growing up on Chicago’s South Side, Rev. Jesse Jackson wasn’t just a name, he showed up. In our churches, our marches, our neighborhoods. I’m grateful for the moral courage he modeled, and for teaching us civil rights and workers’ rights are one fight. Thank you, Rev. Jackson.
Nearly all of January’s new jobs were in healthcare.
Meanwhile Trump’s admin is squeezing immigration and ramping up deportations… in a sector where immigrants make up 39% of home health aides.
You can’t build a care economy by chasing the caregivers away.
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Happy #presidentsday, casual reminder:
Presidents’ Day reminder: a real president protects working people.
Our jobs, our rights, our healthcare. Period.
